Saturday, January 3rd, 2009
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But one thing Oliver Ackermann is always pleasantly surprised by is the increasing number of kids at their shows - those cranium-perforating, pant-shitting, epilepsy-inducing live sets which have the intention of “totally overcoming the senses of anyone who is listening or watching as well as ourselves on stage, we want to envelope this whole environment of sound and light.”
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Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
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When My Bloody Valentine’s Kevin Shields, Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy or Spoon’s Britt Daniel want to push their guitar sound to 11, they go to Oliver Ackermann, maker of the boutique line of guitar pedals called Death By Audio. For the last few years, Ackermann — who also fronts the shoegaze-noise outfit A Place to Bury Strangers — has been building some of the most innovative effects boxes on the market: the “Interstellar Overdriver” is an insanely loud distortion box that also generates bizarro waveforms, the “Octave Clang” mixes ear-bursting fuzz with rich sitar-esque tones and the “Supersonic Fuzz Gun” has six knobs and one switch for endless combinations of guitar noise.
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A Place To Bury Strangers December 12, 2008
Filed under: music — cschutte @ 9:00 am
Tags: a place to bury strangers, joy division, BRMC, Oliver Ackermann
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Harrington, member of Les Savy Fav and Pitchfork TV “Beardo” host enlisted a crew of indie musicians and friends including Andrew W.K., Fred Armisen (Trenchmouth), Moby, Nancy Whang of LCD Soundsystem, the New Pornographers’ Carl Newman, Ian Svenonius (Nation of Ulysses, The Make Up, Weird War), Okkervil River’s Will Sheff, actress Amy Carlson (Third Watch/Law & Order), Oliver Ackermann of A Place to Bury Strangers, Gavin McInnes (Street Carnage/ex-VICE), comedian Seth Herzog, plus members of Love as Laughter, Excepter, Cheeseburger, and Panthers to participate in this tongue in cheek critique with high production value and discreet charm. Watch the video here.
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Oliver Ackerman of A Place to Bury Strangers at the Barfly, Birmingham
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